KALA at Jing’an Courtyard Festival, Shanghai

KALA is here this weekend with Boomi eco-platform, come by if you are in the vicinity. We want to hear about our design and your feedback on them. Designed and produced by our team of artisans.

5% goes to Boomi’s scheme to plant trees in Tongliao city in Inner Mongolia, they have planted 2000 trees in February 2020. Still a long way to go!

 

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Superjury 2020

Truly honoured to be re-connected with familiar faces and reminiscing old times in Petra Christian University, Indonesia. One proud alumna, indeed. Remembering when I was one of the nominee for the same exercise (architectural final theses) many moons ago. These best of the best students will be presenting their design and am excited to learn from them.

Schedule as follows:

Superjury presentation.

Sunday, 9 August 2020

Time: 12:00 (GMT +7)

Google Meet link : petra.id/superjuri2020;
Live Streaming link (if you cannot get in to G-Meet) : petra.id/superjuri2020-LS

Guest lecture and winners announcement

Monday, 10 August 2020

Time: 10:30 (GMT +7)

Edo and I will be sharing our wee experiences, particularly I will be sharing my views of Digital Craftsmanship. Links-TBC.

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KALA in Eco Pop Up Shanghai

KALA is our in house home decor and accessories dual brands. We are in Life Hub, Shanghai until 9 August. If you are around, please pop by! Otherwise you can also follow us in Wechat Official Account: kala_artisanal or IG: @kalaartdecor . Design and made in Indonesia.

These are our favourites: the bamboo coffee filter and bamboo tea strainer.

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Update 4: Completed Bamboo Pod 2

A gif each day’s milestones as follows:

18-23 July 2020.

Danshan Chishui, Yuyao, Zhejiang, China.

Sponsored by Aksen (China and Indonesia), in collaboration with Weishun Xu from Zhejiang University.

Our keen designers and makers are:

Jiang Yating
Chen Wu
Sun Xintian
Chuchu Qi
Yang Ruitong
Shen Jingli
Haiqing Yang
Xia Miaojun*
Feng Liyang
Li Ningyuan*
Fan Zeran

Facilitated by 3 lecturers:

Weishun Xu- Zhejiang University, Matt Wallwork- University of Nottingham Ningbo China and Mia A. Tedjosaputro- Ningbo University.

 

Computationally designed by ZHU team and crafted manually by the keen makers. We are framing the research questions on potentials of mixed reality in architecture to aid design and construction processes. Derived from the observations of two bamboo pods construction (for first pod, click here), the aim is to contribute on the area of computational bamboo architecture.

Photographs courtesy of Sun Xintian, Yang Ruitong and myself.

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Hololens 2

One of this year’s highlight, managed to get hold of Hololens 2 headset for our mixed reality research. I have mapped up the research agenda in computational bamboo architecture for the last year or so and Rafael and myself have been working on the emulator since the beginning of this year. Excited!

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Introduction to Parametric Design

Link to Call for Participants posters, click here.

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Hi all, thank you for your kind help. As you might aware, this session is part of my PGCHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education) assignment. It is a British Teaching qualification course I am taking with Falmouth University, UK.

We will be exploring a rather different teaching and learning concepts, flipped classroom and blended learning.  If you are curious, flipped classroom is a concept related to the shifting of the onus (responsibility) from facilitators to the students. Blended learning involves the use of online and offline materials and environment.

Date: 11 July 2020

Location: Virtual and IAMET218 (UNNC)

Time: 11am-12pm and the pre-classroom activities as below

PRE-CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES- SUMMARY:

  1. Watch the three podcasts, please see the links below.
  2. Do the short quiz (3 minutes top to fill in), link can be found below.
  3. Look for group assignment
  4. Prepare a group oral presentation (2 minutes each group of two- so one minute each person)

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ACTIVITY 1: THREE PODCAST LINKS

      • PODCAST 1 OF 3

Podcast 1- YouTube link: https://youtu.be/K_2H5I-enGM

Podcast 1- Youku link: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDc0Mjc1NTc5Mg==.html

      • PODCAST 2 OF 3

Podcast 2- YouTube link: https://youtu.be/C-04o4TtgAs

Podcast 2- Youku link: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDc0Mjc2MTUwNA==.html

      • PODCAST 3 OF 3

Podcast 3- YouTube link: https://youtu.be/xz0PUmj09Bc

Podcast 3- Youku link: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDc0Mjc3OTM0MA==.html

ACTIVITY 2: SHORT QUIZ

Link to the short quiz is as follow, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DF9FNPS

ACTIVITY 3: GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Will be communicated through Wechat. Depending which group (from 1 to 3) you are assigned, please prepare a group presentation based on the input text you are given.

Input texts are as follow:

TOPIC 1- Historical perspective: Topic 1 A History of Parametric

TOPIC 2- Types of parameters: Topic 2 Parameters

TOPIC 3- Scripting (see page 38-41): Topic 3 Scripting

ACTIVITY 4: PREPARING A GROUP ORAL PRESENTATION

Please communicate with your group member to arrange the two minutes presentation. It is suggested that each one of you prepare a minute presentation, with agreement with your group member.

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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES:

Powerpoint slides can be found here: PGCHE W5 Parametric Design final low.

In-class peer assessment link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GBDSWNB

Learner’s feedback on Flipped Classroom approach: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GBDX669

Hybrid F2F and virtual class footage: https://youtu.be/EsHM5LieoHg

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Update 2: Completed Bamboo Pod 1

Just a quick update on the bamboo sitting pod #1, our trial exercise. Four of us (Zheng, Maxine, Matt and I) completed it in two days despite the heavy downpour. It was completed faster than we planned. The structure stays there as the owner would like to keep it (we planned to take it down straightaway), hence temporary structure support stays for redundancy.

Before we launch the second construction this month (July 18th), here is a gif of the first pod encapsulating the process. And some paps of the final pod.

Sponsored by Aksen (China and Indonesia).

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Digital Architecture Spring 2020: Module Evaluation Form

This week we are wrapping up our module on Week 17 with feedback on your last submission. I would appreciate if you can spare a few minutes to fill in this survey, the module evaluation form. I believe the last 17 weeks have been a great journey for both learners and myself as a facilitator. This survey will be my starting point to reflect on my teaching practice to improve for next year.

Appreciate it, ta.

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